Clinton Piper, MD, PhD

  • Resident, PGY-2

Clint is a PGY-2 pediatrics resident in the pediatric scientist development program. He completed his MD/PhD at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2022. Clint is participating in the accelerated research program (ARP) and plans to start pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship in Summery 2023. Clint's research interests include leukemia biology and bone marrow transplantation. In his free time, Clint enjoys running, biking, hiking, and hanging out with his family.

Hometown

Western Spring, IL

Medical School

Medical College of Wisconsin

 

Education & Training

  • BS, University of Michigan, 2014
  • PhD, Medical College of Winsonsin, 2020
  • MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022

Selected Publications

Piper C, Hainstock E, Chen Y, Khatun A, Kasmani M, Evans J, Gorski J, Cui W, and Drobyski WR.  Single cell immune profiling reveals a developmentally distinct CD4+ GM-CSF+ T cell lineage that induces GI tract GvHD.  Blood Advances. 2022;6 (9): 2791–2804.

Piper C, Zhou V, Komorowski R, Szabo A, Vincent B, Serody J, et al. Pathogenic Bhlhe40+ GM-CSF+ CD4+ T Cells Promote Indirect Alloantigen Presentation in the GI Tract During GVHD. Blood. 2020;135(8):568-81.

Shultis D, Mitra P, Huang X, Johnson J, Khattak NA, Gray F, Piper C et al. Changing the Apoptosis Pathway through Evolutionary Protein Design. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2019;431(4):825-41.

Agle K, Vincent BG, Piper C, Belle L, Zhou V, Shlomchik W, et al. Bim Regulates the Survival and Suppressive Capability of CD8+ FOXP3+ Regulatory T cells During Murine GVHD. Blood. 2018;132(4):435-47.

Roy I, McAllister DM, Gorse E, Dixon K, Piper CT, Zimmerman NP, et al. Pancreatic Cancer Cell Migration and Metastasis Is Regulated by Chemokine-Biased Agonism and Bioenergetic Signaling. Cancer Research.2015;75(17):3529-42.

Research Grants

NIH/NHLBI NRSA Fellowship (F30), September 2018-May 2022

Principal Investigator
Title:  The Role of Donor T Cell-Derived GM-CSF in the Pathogenesis of Gastrointestinal Acute GVHD
Project Number: HL143870